December 2012

December 31st: Another year draws to a close... Can you believe it has been more than nine
years!?

The end of the year always seems to arrive before you know it. You
finally get to Halloween, and then suddenly it is Thanksgiving and then
Christmas, and then POOF! the year is gone.

2012 saw a new format for the web site (not that you can really tell
from the monthly pages... maybe something new for 2013?) and 255 new pictures capturing snowy days,
swimming lessons, Sindy, our first birthday without Harry, Lucie's
pierced ears, the rock museum, Spring in Oregon, Lucie and Lauren, a
trip to Chicago, Summer in Georgia (and the much cooler Oregon coast),
back to school, Halloween prep, a different Thanksgiving in the
Caribbean, the arrival of Plushie and Truffle, and Christmas. So much
captured on "film, and so much missed...

I got a collection of essays written by William Gibson for Christmas. In one he writes that "Time moves in one direction, memory in another. We are that strange
species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting."
The digital camera and the web had only just begun when he wrote that,
and though I am grateful for the digital camera (in fact, the digital
everything that allows me to make a living) that has allowed me to try
to capture Lucie and Harry's lives, I wonder what Lucie will think one
day... Will she be glad that it exists, or will she just want to delete
all her Dad's jokes that she doesn't find funny?

Welcome to 2013. Another year begins...

Remembering Sindy with a celebration of her life

Hamster cake balls! Even though they were gluten free, Mom left most of them for Dad...

We didn't get the tree right after Thanksgiving, but we
did get it early since we needed some time for all the ornaments!

First snow! 12/15/2012! Too bad it didn't really stick...

Plushie and Truffle join the family before Christmas

Christmas Eve! Making cookies for Santa!

In the event of a water emergency, please wear your life jackets... Santa brought the hedge hog too!